Millions of farmers in the Teesta River Basin of northern Bangladesh struggle due to severe water shortages. Together with CASEED and APSU, IFPRI-Bangladesh conducted a government-commissioned study to develop an integrated agricultural strategy for the region. The study found that groundwater irrigation dominates the region, while the barrage provides only 2% due to the severe […]

IFPRI-PRSSP, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, will convene a seminar to disseminate findings from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) baseline survey. ANGeL's baseline was conducted for 4,000 households in 16 districts across Bangladesh from late 2015 to early 2016. It collected unique data, including individual dietary intake data for all household members, anthropometric measurements for all […]

Through field-level trainings for farm households, the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project is exploring how who trains you—a man or a woman—affects behavior change. In the ANGeL Project, female community nutrition workers (CNWs) are key conduits of nutrition knowledge. IFPRI and Helen Keller International recently brought together 25 CNWs for a focused training on […]